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Tiny Sandford is a Actor American born on 25 february 1894

Tiny Sandford

Tiny Sandford
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Birth name Stanley J. Sandford
Nationality USA
Birth 25 february 1894
Death 29 october 1961 (at 67 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Stanley J. "Tiny" Sandford (February 26, 1894 – October 29, 1961) was a tall, burly actor who is best remembered for his roles in Laurel and Hardy and Charlie Chaplin films. He was usually cast as a comic heavy, and often played policemen, doormen, prizefighters, or bullies.

Sandford was born in Osage, Iowa. After working in stock theater he began acting in movies around 1910. He appeared in The Gold Rush with Charlie Chaplin. Other Chaplin films that he appeared in include The Circus (1928) and Modern Times (1936), where he plays "Big Bill". His films with Laurel and Hardy include Big Business (1929), Double Whoopee (1929), The Chimp (1932), and Our Relations (1936). He appeared in The Warrior's Husband as a clumsy and cowardly Hercules. Sandford also acted in Way Out West, but his sequence was cut from the final take.

He also appeared in dramas such as The World's Champion (1922) and The Iron Mask (1929).

He retired from acting in 1940, the year he had a very small role in Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator. He died in Los Angeles, California on October 29, 1961.

Biography

Après avoir fait ses premières armes au théâtre il commença à tourner pour le cinéma vers 1910. Il joua dans La Ruée vers l'or avec Charlie Chaplin qui devint un de ses meilleurs amis. On le voit dans Le Cirque (1928) et Les temps modernes (1936) dans lequel il incarne "Big Bill". Parmi ses films avec Laurel and Hardy on compte Œil pour œil (1929), Son Altesse Royale (1929), Prenez garde au lion, (The Chimp) (1932) et C'est donc ton frère (1936). Sandford joua également dans Laurel et Hardy au Far West mais sa séquence ne fut pas retenue au montage final.

Il fit également des apparitions dans des drames tels que The World's Champion (1922) et Le Masque de fer (1929).

Il se retira en 1940, l'année où il tint un très petit rôle dans Le Dictateur de Chaplin.

Usually with

Hal Roach
Hal Roach
(37 films)
Stan Laurel
Stan Laurel
(28 films)
Oliver Hardy
Oliver Hardy
(29 films)
H. M. Walker
H. M. Walker
(25 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Tiny Sandford (78 films)

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Actor

The Great Dictator, 2h4
Directed by Charlie Chaplin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Military humor in film, Medical-themed films, Monde imaginaire, Hitler, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Political films
Actors Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner, Henry Daniell, Billy Gilbert
Roles Soldier in 1918 Tomainia (uncredited)
Rating83% 4.199254.199254.199254.199254.19925
The action starts in 1918, with the collapse of the Tomainian (German) army. A Jewish barber saves the life of a wounded pilot, Schultz, but loses his own memory through concussion.
Florian
Florian (1940)
, 1h31
Directed by Edwin L. Marin
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Robert Young, Charles Coburn, Irina Baronova, Lee Bowman, Reginald Owen, Lucile Watson
Roles Laundry Foreman
Rating71% 3.58343.58343.58343.58343.5834
Placée dans le contexte de la Première Guerre mondiale en Europe, un homme et une femme de classes différentes sont réunies par leur amour des chevaux Lippizan.
Blossoms On Broadway, 1h20
Directed by Richard Wallace
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Actors Edward Arnold, Shirley Ross, William Frawley, Rufe Davis, Charles Halton, Lew Fields
Roles Workman (uncredited)
Rating54% 2.723332.723332.723332.723332.72333
Show Boat
Show Boat (1936)
, 1h53
Directed by James Whale
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson, Helen Morgan, Helen Westley
Rating73% 3.694133.694133.694133.694133.69413
The musical's story spans about forty years, from the late 1880s to the late 1920s. Magnolia Hawks is an eighteen-year-old on her family's show boat, the Cotton Palace which travels the Mississippi River putting on shows. She meets Gaylord Ravenal, a charming gambler, falls in love with him, and eventually marries him. Together with their baby daughter, the couple leaves the boat and moves to Chicago, where they live off Gaylord's gambling winnings. After about ten years, he experiences an especially bad losing streak and leaves Magnolia, out of a sense of guilt that he is ruining her life because of his losses. Magnolia is forced to bring up her young daughter alone. In a parallel plot, Julie LaVerne (the show boat's leading actress, who is part African-American, but "passing" as white) is forced to leave the boat because of her background, taking Steve Baker (her white husband, to whom, under the state's law, she is illegally married) with her. Julie is eventually also abandoned by her husband, and she becomes an alcoholic. Magnolia's becomes a success on the stage in Chicago. Twenty-three years later Magnolia and Ravenal are reunited at the theater in which Kim, their daughter, is appearing in her first Broadway starring role.
Modern Times, 1h27
Directed by Charlie Chaplin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Sports films, Films about the labor movement, La précarité
Actors Paulette Goddard, Charlie Chaplin, Henry Bergman, Tiny Sandford, Chester Conklin, Hank Mann
Roles Big Bill
Rating84% 4.2484854.2484854.2484854.2484854.248485
Modern Times portrays Chaplin as a factory worker employed on an assembly line. There, he is subjected to such indignities as being force-fed by a "modern" feeding machine and an accelerating assembly line where he screws nuts at an ever-increasing rate onto pieces of machinery. He finally suffers a nervous breakdown and runs amok, throwing the factory into chaos. He is sent to a hospital. Following his recovery, the now unemployed factory worker is mistakenly arrested as an instigator in a Communist demonstration. In jail, he accidentally ingests smuggled cocaine, mistaking it for salt. In his subsequent delirium, he gets out of the jail. When he returns, he stumbles upon a jailbreak and knocks the convicts unconscious. He is hailed a hero and is released.
Our Relations, 1h5
Directed by Harry Lachman
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Alan Hale, Sidney Toler, James Finlayson, Arthur Housman
Roles Wharf tough guy (uncredited)
Rating72% 3.641853.641853.641853.641853.64185
Laurel and Hardy star as both their famous Stan and Ollie characters and as Stan and Ollie's twin brothers Bert and Alf.
Sutter's Gold, 1h34
Directed by James Cruze
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Edward Arnold, Lee Tracy, Binnie Barnes, Katharine Alexander, Montagu Love, Addison Richards
Roles San Francisco Troublemaker
Rating59% 2.955262.955262.955262.955262.95526
Pendant la ruée vers l'or en Californie en 1849, on découvre de l'or dans la propriété de John Sutter, un immigrant d'origine Suisse.
Mummy's Boys, 1h8
Directed by Fred Guiol, James Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Barbara Pepper, Moroni Olsen, Frank M. Thomas, Willie Best
Roles Construction Foreman
Rating50% 2.522122.522122.522122.522122.52212
This script must be run from the command line
Ship Cafe
Ship Cafe (1935)
, 1h5
Directed by Robert Florey
Origin USA
Genres Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Carl Brisson, Arline Judge, Mady Christians, William Frawley, Inez Courtney, Grant Withers
Roles Stoker (uncredited)
Rating63% 3.1538953.1538953.1538953.1538953.153895
Going Bye-Bye!, 20minutes
Directed by Charley Rogers, Hal Roach
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch, Walter Long, Baldwin Cooke, Sam Lufkin
Roles Man in Courtroom
Rating75% 3.78993.78993.78993.78993.7899
In a packed courtroom, Butch Long (Walter Long) vows revenge on 'squealers' Laurel and Hardy whose evidence has helped to send him to prison for the rest of his life, threatening to "break off their legs and wrap 'em around their necks!" after Laurel makes a suggestion to the judge (Harry Dunkinson), "Aren't you going to hang him?" Later, in the car, Ollie repeats this question sarcastically, since he saw Long's reaction just after Stan said it; he then asks Stan, "Couldn't you see that he was annoyed?" (an understatement to be sure!)
Babes in Toyland, 1h17
Directed by Charley Rogers, Gus Meins, Gordon Douglas
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Christmas films, Musical films, Films about toys, Buddy films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Billy Bletcher, Charlotte Henry, Baldwin Cooke, Jean Darling
Roles Dunker (uncredited)
Rating70% 3.5432653.5432653.5432653.5432653.543265
Stannie Dum (Stan Laurel) and Ollie Dee (Oliver Hardy), live in a shoe (as in the nursery rhyme There Was An Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe), along with Mother Peep (the Old Woman), Bo Peep (Charlotte Henry), a mouse resembling Mickey Mouse (and actually played by a live monkey in a costume), and many other children. The mortgage on the shoe is owned by the villainous Silas Barnaby (Henry Brandon), who is looking to marry Bo Peep. Knowing the Widow Peep is having a difficult time paying the mortgage, Barnaby offers the old woman an ultimatum – unless Bo Peep agrees to marry him he will foreclose on the shoe. Widow Peep refuses, but is worried about where she'll get the money to pay the mortgage. Ollie offers her all the money he has stored away in his savings can, only to learn that Stannie has taken it to buy peewees (a favored toy consisting of a wooden peg with tapered ends that rises in the air when struck with a stick near one end and is then caused to fly through the air by being struck again with the stick). He and Stannie set out to get the money for the mortgage from their boss, the Toymaker (William Burress). But Stannie has mixed up an order from Santa Claus (building 100 wooden soldiers at six feet tall, instead of 600 soldiers at one foot tall) and one of the soldiers, when activated, wrecks the toy shop. Stannie and Ollie are fired without getting the money.
Washee Ironee
Directed by James Gibbons Parrott
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Wally Albright, George McFarland, Stymie Beard, Scotty Beckett, Tommy Bond, Leonard Kibrick
Roles Traffic Cop
Rating69% 3.467583.467583.467583.467583.46758
On the day that he is scheduled to perform a violin solo at a swank bridge luncheon held by his social-climbing mother, rich kid Waldo opts instead to play football with the gang. With Waldo's help, the kids win the game, but his expensive clothes are covered with mud. Spanky declares that he and his pals are perfectly capable of washing Wally's duds on their own—and the result is a slapstick smorgasbord, culminating in a typically outsized Hal Roach traffic jam.
Hi'–Neighbor!
Directed by Gus Meins
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Wally Albright, Stymie Beard, George McFarland, Tommy Bond, Scotty Beckett, Jerry Tucker
Roles Moving Man
Rating77% 3.8595853.8595853.8595853.8595853.859585
While sailing their toy tugboat in a puddle outside their house, Wally and Spanky notice a moving van with a child-sized fire engine riding into the neighborhood. They quickly round up the rest of the gang, and follow the moving van to its destination. The fire truck's owner, a snobbish rich kid named Jerry, comes out to find a dozen strange children playing with his fire engine and shoos them all away, refusing to trade any sorts of collateral (pocket knives, gratitude) for even a ride. When Wally's girl Jane turns up, however, Jerry is quick to offer her a ride. Wally tries to dissuade Jane from riding with Jerry by telling her that the gang has a fire engine of its own, big enough to hold all of them. Jane agrees to a ride with Wally in his fire engine after she gets back from her ride with Jerry.